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Across 1. Studio that slipped Dukas a Mickey 2. Mussorgsky “Exhibition” witch, lives in hut on chicken legs (full name) 5. Chicago music director dubbed “The Screaming Skull” 8. Edgar Stillman Kelley acephalous equestrian, after Irving (2 words) 12. 16th century avant-garde composer, prince… and wife-murderer 13. Cursed line of Gilbert & Sullivan baronets 17. Composer whose funeral procession Liszt predicted in “La lugubre gondola” 18. Rachmaninoff symphonic poem after Böcklin funerary islet (4 words) 20. Thomas S. Allen moon-motivated mandolin crazies, Dance of the________” 23. Berg streetwalker murdered by Jack the Ripper 24. Common feature of Moniuszko opera manor and Disney theme park attraction 25. Gaston Leroux potboiler set at the Palais Garnier (4 words) 27. Sinister interval known as “The Devil in music” 28. Colorful party crasher, after Poe, in Caplet’s “Conte fantastique” (2 words) 31. Occult pseudonym of Philip Heseltine 33. Libby Larsen novel opera, subtitled “The Modern Prometheus” 34. Gaspard goblin 37. “The Devil’s Violinist,” composer of “Le streghe” (“The Witches’ Dance”) 38. Mussorgsky “Bald” demon 41. Spooky subject of William Bolcom “Graceful,” alliterative rag 42. First opera performed at “the old Met,” October 22, 1883 43. Vincent Price doctor, fond of Mendelssohn’s “War March of the Priests” 44. Black humor pen-and-ink artist with sanguinary name, rendered wry scenes from opera 45. Frederic Curzon “little devil” light music classic, “Dance of an Ostracised ___” 46. Beethoven “Ghost,” and Weird Sisters said to have inspired it 47. Quasimodo sanctuary in Franz Schmidt opera after Hugo (2 words) 48. Musical term for slow and serious 49. Legendary captain of Wagner ghost ship

Down 1. Oft-quoted medieval plainchant, meaning “Day of Wrath” (Latin, 2 words) 3. Schubert song played by hermit violinist in “The Bride of Frankenstein” (2 words) 4. Hammer star, encouraged by Björling to train as opera singer (full name) 6. Missy Mazzoli opera commission, after George Saunders ghostly bestseller (4 words) 7. Composer of seminal Romantic opera, with magic bullets forged at Wolf’s Glen 9. “Accursed” Franck figure who neglects religious duties in favor of bloodsport 10. Subject of unfinished Debussy Poe opera, would have brought down the house 11. Occupation of Julian Grant’s Burke & Hare, another word for “resurrectionist” 14. Billy Mayerl flittermouse favorite, bell tower euphemism for crazy (4 words) 15. Return address of diabolical Boccherini symphony, “From the House of the _____” 16. Morton Gould “whacky” ballet subject, gave her mother 40 of them (full name) 19. Jack Heggie death row opera, also Susan Sarandon movie, nothing to do with zombie (3 words) 21. Hannibal Lecter’s favorite composer 22. Burns blellum who tarries at pub, later pursued by forces of darkness (full name) 26. Inspired by Erben legends “The Noon Witch,” “The Water Goblin,” and “The Spectre’s Bride” 29. Bartok uxoricide 30. His “Rake” sells soul to Nick Shadow, his soldier trades violin to the Devil 32. Fanged, face-smeared fist-recipient in song by Charles Ives 35. Edward W. Hardy violin music named for “Raven” refrain 36. Silent vampire that inspired Copland ballet “Grohg” 39. Romantic composer, predicted brother’s death with “Nachtstücke” (“Night Pieces”) 40. Verdi librettist who went to the Devil